Manager of System and Application Team

Job title: Manager of System and Application Team

We are seeking a talented and motivated leader to join Renesas as Manager of the System and Application Team. The role will own and define next-generation power products, drive product roadmaps, and provide direct customer support for India's business division, working in an entrepreneurial and technically challenging environment.

What You'll Do

• Identify market opportunities and collaborate with Marketing, Business Division management, and Sales to exploit these opportunities.
• Support Marketing/Sales/FAEs to facilitate design-in of our products and provide technical assistance to address customer questions such as circuit design reviews, debugging, troubleshooting and field return analysis.
• Use knowledge gained to support marketing plans including TAM/SAM/SOM by providing analysis demonstrating the technical merit of Renesas solutions vs. competitors.
• Provide deep technical support and training to advance Renesas’s commercial success; translate complex ideas for less experienced audiences.
• Work with the broader marketing and design teams to develop customer collateral that raises the company’s profile.
• Understand market and customer requirements and define product requirements and improve product roadmaps; define product family roadmap.
• Produce technically detailed Product Requirements and/or design specifications documents.
• Work with design engineering when conflicts arise between requirements, capabilities and business expectations.
• Interpret device-level system use cases and translate to product specifications while ensuring specs meet customer needs through collaboration with customers and internal teams.
• Compare design trade-offs and IP choices to achieve competitive product specifications.
• Participate in FPGA-based design prototyping to verify key features and functions meet expectations.
• Work with design and other staff to find solutions when targets are not met.
• Guide staff in creating Applications Validation Plans to ensure corner cases are covered.
• Perform physical silicon device evaluation at board level based on defined evaluation plans, including understanding silicon behavior and functionality in detail.
• Drive system modelling requirements.
• Support hiring and management of the necessary team as per business needs over time.

What We're Looking For

• Comfort and ability to collaborate in an entrepreneurial (fast-paced and ambiguous) environment.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills; comfortable presenting to a wide range of audiences.
• Ability to communicate issues concisely and effectively; desire and drive to interact with internal and external stakeholders.
• Product ownership mentality; strong leadership and ability to build and maintain relationships.
• 12+ years of experience in power management space, ideally including product definition; travel will be required.
• Bachelor or Masters of Electronics Engineering or related discipline.
• Ability to build a strong team and motivate individuals to work outside their comfort zone.
• Self-driven, strongly motivated, capable of taking full ownership and involving other functions when needed.
• Understanding of power management applications and products.
• Technical proficiency: hands-on lab debugging, probing and characterizing circuits and silicon using lab equipment such as power supplies, e-load, digital oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, etc.
• Board-level analog and digital circuit design expertise and PCB schematic design; SIMPLIS or similar circuit simulator.
• Understanding of control loop theory and its application in power converters.
• Experience using FEA tools for thermal, electrical, and magnetic investigations.
• Programming proficiency in C and Python.
• PCB CAD tools for both schematic and layout; proficiency with lab equipment including network analyzers, oscilloscopes and waveform generators.
• Experience with automation of lab testing; data analysis using Excel or JMP.
• Understanding of AECQ / IATF / ISO26262 (FuSa) at least basic level.

Industry Electronics